Dr. Tom Hubbard (b.1950) was the first librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library and is the author, editor or co-editor of over thirty academic and literary works. Dr. Hubbard currently edits the Online Bibliography of Irish Literary Criticism (BILC) at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and in December 2009 he was appointed the Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor of British Literature, University of Connecticut for the Spring Semester of 2011. Tom resides in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
Tom Hubbard was born in Kirkcaldy, the grandson of the Kirkcaldy MP, Thomas Hubbard, who famously had to be carried into The Lobby despite severe illness to swing an important division.
After obtaining first class honours (MA, PhD) from Aberdeen University and a Diploma in Librarianship from Strathclyde University, Hubbard worked at the Scottish Poetry Library (1984-92) and as a visiting lecturer at the universities of Grenoble, Connecticut, Budapest , and North Carolina .
From 2000 to 2004, he was Editor of BOSLIT (Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation), a research project of Edinburgh University, based at the National Library of Scotland. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow (2004-2007), an Honorary Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh (2005-2008), and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (FCLIP) (elected 2006).
His poetry came to the attention of the Scottish reading public after he started to be published regularly by Duncan Glen's Akros Publications. His most recent work of poetry is Peacocks and Squirrels and he has recently completed a first novel, on the life of Marie Bashkirtseff, a Ukrainian artist.
with Ralph Pite, Keith Carabine and Lindy Stiebel, Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: Pt. VII: Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by Their Contemporaries (Pickering & Chatto, 2009)
Marie B: A Biographical Novel (Kirkcaldy: Ravenscraig Press, 2008) ISBN 0955655919
with Duncan Glen, A Fringe of Gold: The Fife Anthology (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2008)
Peacocks and Squirrels: Poems of Fife (Kirkcaldy: Akros Publications, 2007)
Michael Scot: Myth and Polymath (Akros, 2006)
Scottish Faust: Poems and Ballads of Eldritch Lore (Kettillonia, 2004)
Isolde's Luve-daith: Poems in English and Scots (Akros, 1998)
Integrative Vision: Poetry and the Visual Arts in Baudelaire, Rilke and MacDiarmid (Akros, 1997)
Seeking Mr. Hyde: Studies in Robert Louis Stevenson, Symbolism, Myth and the Pre-Modern (Scottish studies) (Peter Lang, 1995)
The New Makars: Anthology of Contemporary Poetry in Scots (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1991)